Quotes About Respect

Believe me, my child, that Christian ministers are never called on by God's word to insult the convictions, or even the prejudices of their brethren, and that religion is at any rate not less susceptible of urbane and courteous conduct among men than any other study which men may take up.

Each must give way to the other if there is to be any happiness.

Your brother has married a lady, and my daughter has married a gentleman. Yes; George is a great ass; in some respects the greatest ass I know; but he is a gentleman. Perhaps if you have anything else that you wish to say you will do me the honour of sitting down.

Whereupon not only did Isabel enter the room, but at the same time Mrs. Boncassen most discreetly left it. It must be confessed that American mothers are not afraid of their daughters.

He had already known many members of Parliament to whom no outward respect or sign of honour was ever given by any one; and it seemed to him, as he thought over it, that Irish members of Parliament were generally treated with more indifference than any others. There were O'B–––– and O'C–––– and O'D––––

In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

A Dutchman stepped out of his house and asked two British Soldiers if they would like a cup of tea. A little further back along the route they had come, the bodies of British paratroopers lay 'everywhere, many of them behind trees or poles', Albert Horstman of the Arnhem underground recorded. He then saw 'a man about middle-aged, who wore a hat. This man went to every dead soldier, lifted his hat and stood in silence for a few seconds.

Objectification is rooted in disrespect, condescending views of the opposite gender, and power struggles. When men realize that they have the capability to fundamentally respect women, and women realize that they have the power to present themselves as empowered, fully capable people, raunch culture may moan its last and final faked orgasm.

How can it ever be right to wreck A man because he's time by the clock As an elderly man grizzled and gray, Who long ago struggled at your side Mopping the copious Manly sweat from his brow When he bravely fought at Marathon In defense of our city.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.

Teachers should be more honored than parents, for whereas parents give their children life, teachers give their children a good life

No one loves the man whom he fears

What a society honors will be cultivated.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

You have to respect yourself before you can command a guy's respect.

Hey, you look at your tits; I'll look at mine! (Michael Tolliver, Tales of the City)

men and women, both straight and gay, who don't consider sexuality in measuring the worth of another human being. These aren't radicals or weirdos, Mama. They are shop clerks and bankers and little old ladies and people who nod and smile to you when you meet them on the bus. Their attitude is neither patronizing nor pitying. And their message is so simple: Yes, you are a person. Yes, I like you. Yes, it's all right for you to like me too.

God is not mocked!

I can't have you making tea for me. It's not decent.

I hate all the arts! you say. My dear sir, I respect you more and more.

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.